Well, it does. Carleton College professors aren’t fans of bias reporting: Two Carleton College professors are uneasy about the “bias incident reporting” trend, saying it is “fundamentally at odds with the mission of higher education”…
Topic: free speech
WATCH: Leftist Students Protest, Walk Out of Ben Shapiro’s UNC Speech
It backfired, as more students filed in once the protesters left. Ouch! A staged walkout by liberal students during a Ben Shapiro lecture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill backfired Wednesday, with other…
Free Speech Crackdown is a Good Thing, College Student Claims
Editor’s Note: Latest spin on free speech crackdown—change the world by changing the campus. Zachary Wood, guest blogging at the AAUP’s Academe Blog, pretty much insinuated that free speech crackdown is a good thing. Photo by…
Another Teacher Put on Leave in Minnesota due to Personal Views on Social Media
Wait, are we suspending people because of their right to free speech and the First Amendment? If you’ve missed it, it’s been happening all around us. This time, a teacher is suspended in St. Paul,…
Silver Linings to Student Meltdowns
The bad news is that student protestors today are more openly totalitarian than demonstrators of the 1960s. The good news: They’re less destructive. “At the University of Kansas, where I graduated, students torched the…
Conservative Student Warriors Vs. the Snowflake Rebellion
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has never been known as a venue for self-help seminars, but in 2016 it happened. A session called Campus Crackdown focused on practical steps that conservative students could take…
John McAdams Punished With Longer Suspension, Forced Apology
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in the AAUP’s Academe Blog. Marquette University yesterday announced the punishment of John McAdams for his crime of publicly criticizing a graduate student teacher’s pedagogy on his blog: He will…
Free Speech Bill Dies in Tennessee Legislature after Hypothetical ISIS Comment is Raised
This isn’t a joke; lawmakers feared a potential ISIS recruitment scenario: “Tennessee lawmakers will not vote on a bill designed to ensure robust free speech on taxpayer-funded college campuses in the state because they fear ISIS…
Academic Free Speech Freefall
It is one of the many ironies of our modern age that one of the places that the first amendment is designed to benefit—the academy—is so maladroit in using it. “What, exactly, is the tension…
Colleges Are All For Diversity — Except When It Comes To Ideas
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation website. ALEXANDRIA, VA — When it comes to “diversity,” American colleges and universities are eager to embrace differences in race, ethnic background, religion,…